Liv in a Life Well-Lived

To live the life I truly want, I close my eyes. To awake into my life I sleep.

Now I find out Matt's been married since April this year. What?? He couldn't even wait for me to get my act together? Hay. What is with all these marrying and hurrying anyway? Is there some one time special promo giving out licenses that I haven't heard about? I don't get it. How could anyone be getting married at this point? What kind of life would they have lived to get there fairly faster than most? By most I mean of course, me. Yes, I could just be such an immature clod that I wouldn't know love if it hits me on the nose. All those years I have ranted against commitment phobic guys, it's starting to dawn on me that it takes one to know one. I keep making up other reasons why I'm nowhere near the proverbial mark yet and all of them sounds silly to me. TOP TEN GUESSES WHY LIV'S STILL SINGLE 1) I'm a genius (hurrah!) for finding out a way to pathologically incise out all romantic inclinations for any type of gender (which is not likely, seeing I st

Book in Hand: Sunshine by Robin McKinley Song in Mind: "dum dee dum... because of you I never strayed too far from the sidewalk... because of you I learned to stay on the same side so I won't get hurt..." Do I sound uppity today? At all? Just when I thought I made it through the blasted STEP-UP event which just devoured two whole weeks of my life and probably decreased my life span by seven years, another humongous problem comes my way again. Barely ten hours after the conclusion of the darn thing. A darkness in conscience. That's what this new problem brings about. So quite desperately, I'm trying to keep my eyes on the faint light I see at the end of my tunnel. Hoping, hoping I won't lose my faith and fall into avarice.

Book in Hand: 24 short stories by willa cather Song in Mind: a monotonous droning I admit, the Harry Potter movies are now to be considered capitalistic ventures out to earn the big millions from the enthralled masses. And it's one capitalistic venture I visibly indulge in. That is, as long as they can keep me hooked. As of HP 3 I am already having difficulties accepting the film interpretation of the book. And as Harry's world gets darker, I find myself more hesitant to indulge in it. I read HP for the sake of being young again. Not anymore. HP 4 was definitely not 100% faithful to the book. Grabe, there were scenes that left my mouth hanging open and I was spouting "B-b-but... it didn't happen that way!" I'm not sure what pushed the director's vision, and I guess I'm just being catankerous. But if a person watches the film without reading the book, they wouldn't understand the story at all! And to those who did read the whole lot of Harry Potter

What's the best way to become unstuck when you're caught between two worlds? I swear I'm not living my life right today... I keep schmoozing off to La-la Land. I have a story brewing inside my head for the past few days and there's nothing more I'd like to do than plop myself in front of my compuer and just write it. So, you ask, why can't I? Well, there's the small matter of having to work. Hay. Real writers out there will say Boo You! If you want to write then just do it. Writers write. Wannabes whine. Even my ideas aren't so original. I'm doing an anthology nowadays. I called the collection "We Who Have Fallen Asleep" and it covers various states and tales of sleeping and waking. Even allegorical ones. I commend Yoshimoto for the idea, but these would be composed of short stories the ideas of which germinated from those already told by Tolkien, Berg, Black, de Maupussant, de Lint, and various other authors who make my (imaginary) life so

Book in Hand: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexndra McCall Smith Song in Mind: Maling Akala Everything in my life is disintegrating.... Most of our appliances at home are staging a coup and are quite happy breaking down one by one - now we have 2 TV sets for repair, 3 electric fans,our PLDT phone line, our water tank plus the pump... Our househelp needs to go back home for a month because her sister is dying. And she needs mucho dinero which we do not know how to provide. Mummy just got final notices from her credit card companies who are now threatening to sue us if we do not pay our accounts which would cost us about P 400,000 all in all. If we had that kind of money, we wouldn't be using the cards. And half of the blasted amount was their interest. We only owe them about 250K which we can handle, but their finance fees are insane and inhumane. Work is hell, as per usual. But okay. There are good things. I rested well this weekend. My family as of this morning are all wel

Your Brain's Pattern Your mind is a creative hotbed of artistic talent.You're always making pictures in your mind, especially when you're bored.You are easily inspired to think colorful, interesting thoughts.And although it may be hard to express these thoughts, it won't always be. What Pattern Is Your Brain? It means, I'm just freaking insane. have constant comic strips running through my brain. or storylines that never get written. Your Inner Child Is Sad You're a very sensitive soul.You haven't grown that thick skin that most adults have.Easily hurt, you tend to retreat to your comfort zone.You don't let many people in - unless you've trusted them for a long time. How Is Your Inner Child? Translation: Autistic

Book in Hand: Reviewing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ARLENE'S GONNA GET MARRIED IN JUNE 2006. I WILL BE ONE OF THE SECONDARY SPONSORS. I WILL BE WEARING SOMETHING TANGERINE. YIKES! I MEAN, TANGERINE? :) :O THIS IT, IT'S STARTING.... THEY'RE ALL GETTING MARRIED. NEXT IT WILL BE MARIEL (MAYBE IN 6 YEARS), THEN DRE, THEN PETIT, THEN SEPPIE, THEN LEAH.... The curse of the Sisterhood of the Ice Cream Cone is about to be lifted... from them. Me? I'm happy standing right here at the bleachers cheering them on. Truly, honestly. That is, at least for now. Me? Get married anytime soon? I can't even be cool with the idea of having a boyfriend. Yuck. Having to get all musshy and squishy with a person you absolutely have no way of monitoring his personal hygienic process. Anyway. PUTIK! TANGERINE!!!! :)

Book in Hand: Game of Thrones by George Martin Song in Mind: Dastardly Pinoy Big Brother Theme Song --- Getitoffame!!! It's all at SM... we've got it all for you... Theme Song of the Universal Capitalist. Music to the ear of the unwitting Consumer. Hay. Christmas is in the air! Can you feel it? SM does make sure you at least have an idea it's coming. With what all the shimmery ornaments they make sure they put up two days before even Halloween is over. And all the people are looking around, swarming about, touching the glittering stuff they have on display but completely unable to buy anything they want. E-VAT be damned! From an economist's point of view, the additional tax seems rational -- even logical. But that self same economist must be a father or a mother too, a daughter or a son to a family that needs to be fed. In the country right now, we couldn't handle the E VAT. Money is the mother lode of most problems in the country and here they are asking for more